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Posted on 25 November 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, 1872, with John Tenniel’s illustration) To be master or mistress of meanings, you need to be up to date with good sources. You might remember that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will deliver a new…

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nonsense in translation: Nina Cassian and the Jabberwocky

Posted on 27 May 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Romanian poet Nina Cassian died one month ago today. (Here she is reading her work, and here’s a great poem she wrote in New York exile). She also translated Brecht, Molière and Shakespeare, but was especially proud of her translation of…

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